Cryptocurrency hedge fund

Cryptocurrency hedge funds are investment funds which pool capital from investors into a group of assets focusing entirely, or partially, on cryptocurrencies or other decentralized digital assets. Funds are actively managed by experts or insider investors, who charge a fee for the analysis and selection of investment opportunities. A wide variety of both manual and automated strategies exist for diversifying and allocating funds; including restricting to high value market cap, hand picking specific assets, and much more. Investors following these strategies typically seek to reduce risk exposure to volatility in the value of any specific cryptocurrency on the market. In addition to hedge funds specializing exclusively in cryptocurrency assets, traditional hedge funds have increased their exposure to cryptocurrency assets.

Regulatory uncertainty

Cryptocurrency hedge funds invest in cryptoassets through a variety of mechanisms and instruments including initial coin offerings, pre-sales, SAFT, SAFTE, JCO and others. Most of these investments hold additional risk due to the regulatory uncertainty, especially from US regulators such as the SEC and CFTC. The SEC has released a number of recommendations and statements regarding ICOs and has taken action against securities some cryptoasset securities offerings such as Munchee Inc and Centra. The status of individual cryptocurrencies as a security, commodity, property, or some other status is still unclear. Despite this uncertainty, the number of cryptocurrency hedge funds increased significantly in 2017 as both crypto and traditional hedge funds produced high returns from cryptoassets compared to traditional assets.

Tokenization

Several cryptocurrency hedge funds have released tradable cryptocurrency tokens for example Blockchain Capital (BCAP), TaaS Fund (TAAS), and Blackmoon Crypto (BMC). A new class of decentralized asset management platform has emerged around the crowdsourcing or open sourcing of fund management with associated tokens. ICONOMI is developing an Open Fund Management Platform in which individuals can create an array of Digital Asset Arrays (DAAs) where others can invest. Numerai is building an AI and machine learning hedge fund platform for data scientists is building an AI and machine learning hedge fund platform for data scientists. Cindicator is also developing community and AI driven asset management fund.

List of cryptocurrency hedge funds